He is author and editor of numerous academic books, and is also a politically engaged academic, whereby he has regularly contributed to the Morning Star, The Guardian's Comment is free website, the Frontline magazine, The Conversation, The Scotsman, The Herald, The Huffington Post, The National and a number of other media outlets, such as the journal of the ASLEF train drivers' Locomotive union and Tribune.
The key arguments concerned not relying on the SNP and establishing a connection between the material grievances of ordinary citizens and the possibilities of higher standards of living and better life chances under independence as a result of rolling back the tentacles of neo-liberalism.
Following the sudden and unexpected death of RMT general secretary Bob Crow in March 2014, Gall has written a political biography of him, examining what lessons can be learnt for the union movement from his style of leadership in espousing militant, oppositional politics.
[4] Manchester University Press published Professor Gregor Gall's Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero in early 2024.
The book is a combined biographical and sociological study of Lynch as he became a leading left-wing public figure from the early summer of 2022 onwards.